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Oakland Gardens (TLC zone 175) is a small, daytime zone in eastern Queens. About 585 trips a day start here, and Bayside is the top destination (15.3%). Trips are fairly long for Queens, so app trips pay well per trip: a $17.06 median, 7th of 67 Queens zones outside the airports. Late-night weekday pickups are rare.
The figures come from TLC trip records for yellow taxis, green cabs and app trips (Uber, Lyft), September 2025 to August 2026, totaled by TLC Help.
Oakland Gardens at a glance
TLC's map gives zone 175 six neighbors: Bayside (16), Bellerose (19), Douglaston (64), Fresh Meadows (98), Jamaica Estates (131) and Queens Village (191). TLC calls it a "Boro Zone"; that label sorts data and has no legal effect.
A daytime zone
The weekday peak is 8 a.m. (about 54 pickups), followed by 2 p.m. (about 48), and drop-offs also peak at 8 a.m. (about 59). Weekend pickups are flat from late morning to early afternoon: Saturday's top hours are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at about 34 each. Weekdays are busier than Saturdays here (619 a day against 555).
Nights are very quiet on weekdays: only 3.7% of weekday pickups happen from midnight to 5 a.m. Sunday night is different for arrivals: 20.3% of Sunday drop-offs happen in those hours.
A summer dip
Pickups peaked in March 2026 (19,800) and were lowest in August 2026 (16,148) and July (16,497). Drop-offs show the same summer low (15,150 in July).
Where trips go
Bayside takes 15.3% of pickups and sends 15.1% of drop-offs, almost three times any other city zone. Next is outside NYC (10.4%), TLC's zone 265, then Oakland Gardens itself (5.5%), Douglaston and Flushing (3.8% each). JFK takes 3.2%, and 5.5% of app pickups go to an airport (19th in Queens).
Arrivals look different from departures in one way: no "outside NYC" row appears among the top origins. Trips ending here come from Bayside (15.1%), Oakland Gardens (5.5%), Queens Village (4.5%), Flushing (4.1%), Forest Hills (3.4%) and JFK (2.8%). Overall the zone is balanced, with 213,482 pickups and 214,909 drop-offs. By contrast, neighboring Bellerose and nearby Glen Oaks both have far more pickups than drop-offs.
If a passenger in a taxi or green cab asks for Nassau or Westchester, you may not refuse without a justifiable reason (80-20(a)(1)). See out-of-city taxi fares for how the meter works past the city line.
Fares and pay
The median app trip is 4.84 miles in 14.9 minutes, with a $20.28 fare (6th in Queens) and $17.06 driver pay. Pay per engaged hour is $69.47 (10th). That figure counts only passenger time, so actual hourly earnings are lower. Check how TLC's minimum pay works with the pay estimator.
Yellow taxis made just 2,071 pickups, with a median trip of 9.7 miles and $34.94. Card riders on those trips tipped only 0.5% of the fare.
Pickup rules
Oakland Gardens is in TLC's Hail Zone: yellow and green cabs may take hails. App drivers take only base-dispatched trips (80-19(c)(1)). DOT's relief-stand data lists no stand in the zone or nearby; the closest is a taxi-only stand in Jackson Heights, about 6.6 miles away; the closest open to FHVs is in Woodside, about 6.9 miles away.
Nearby zones
Data on this page
Aggregates of public data. They describe trips and vehicles, never individual people.
Aggregated by TLC Help from TLC trip records, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 (pickup date; TLC publishes trip files about two months after the month ends and may revise them). 'App' = high-volume for-hire services (Uber, Lyft). Taxi records with a negative fare (reversals) are excluded. Averages, medians and rates use 'clean' trips only: 1 minute to 4 hours, more than 0 and under 150 miles, fare above $0 and under $1,000. 'Fare' is the metered fare_amount for taxis and base_passenger_fare for app trips — before tolls, tips, taxes and surcharges — so it is not what the passenger paid in total. App driver_pay is TLC's 'total driver pay (not including tolls or tips and net of commission, surcharges, or taxes)'. Tips are separate. 'Per engaged hour' divides pay by passenger time only (pickup to drop-off). It leaves out time driving to pickups and waiting for requests, so real hourly earnings are lower; it is not the TLC minimum-pay formula. Monthly cells with 1–9 trips are shown as blank (null). Pairs with fewer than 10 trips are not listed.
- Oakland Gardens: trip facts by sector — Key trip facts for taxi zone 175 (Oakland Gardens, Queens) by sector, 12 months.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Taxi tips: tip_amount records credit-card tips only (cash tips are not recorded), so taxi tip rates use credit-card trips (payment_type 1). App tips are the tips field on every trip. Tip rate = tips ÷ fare. Medians and rates need at least 250 trips in the cell (else blank); counts of 1–9 are blank. Pickup-side stats (fare, pay, tips) describe trips that START here.
- Oakland Gardens: when trips start, by hour — Average pickups per day in each hour in zone 175, on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays (all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Average over all such days in the window, holidays included.
- Oakland Gardens: pickups by month — Trips starting in taxi zone 175 (Oakland Gardens, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- Oakland Gardens: where trips from here go — Top drop-off zones for trips starting in zone 175, as a share of all its pickups (12 months, all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Out of 213,482 pickups. 'Outside NYC' = zone 265.
- Oakland Gardens: where trips to here come from — Top pickup zones for trips ending in zone 175, as a share of all its drop-offs (12 months, all sectors).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Out of 214,909 drop-offs.
- Oakland Gardens: when trips arrive, by hour — Average drop-offs per day in each hour in zone 175, on weekdays, Saturdays and Sundays (all sectors; hour of pickup).NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Hour is the trip's pickup hour (TLC records both, but a trip is binned by when it started).
- Oakland Gardens: drop-offs by month — Trips ending in taxi zone 175 (Oakland Gardens, Queens) each month, by sector.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026
- All 263 taxi zones: trips and key facts (map-ready) — One row per TLC taxi zone (LocationID 1–263) with pickups, drop-offs, sector mix, app driver pay, fares and tip rates — the source for zone maps, hubs and the zone explorer.NYC TLC Trip Record Data (yellow, green, high-volume FHV), Sep 2025 – Aug 2026 · pulled Oct 12, 2026Medians/rates need ≥250 trips (else null). labels are LocationIDs as strings; zones[] has names, boroughs, service_zone (from taxi_zone_lookup.csv), suggested slugs and neighbouring zone ids (shared boundary, from taxi_zones.zip).
Frequently asked questions
How busy is Oakland Gardens?
Quiet. TLC trip records show 213,482 pickups from September 2025 to August 2026, about 585 a day, 55th of the 67 Queens zones outside the airports.
Where do rides from Oakland Gardens go?
Bayside is first, with 15.3% of pickups. Next come trips leaving New York City (10.4%) and trips inside Oakland Gardens (5.5%). Douglaston and Flushing take 3.8% each.
Is Oakland Gardens good for late-night trips?
Not on weekdays. Only 3.7% of weekday pickups happen between midnight and 5 a.m., the lowest share of any Queens neighborhood zone in the data (only the Jamaica Bay marsh zone is lower).
What does an app trip from here pay?
The median app trip paid the driver $17.06 before tips and tolls, 7th of 67 non-airport Queens zones. It covered 4.84 miles in 14.9 minutes.
Sources
Last reviewed against the official sources on .
- NYC TLC Trip Record Data nyc.gov
- TLC Taxi Zone Lookup Table d37ci6vzurychx.cloudfront.net
- NYC Open Data: Taxi and FHV Relief Stands (DOT, vqu8-xef9) data.cityofnewyork.us
- TLC Rules Chapter 80: Rules Applicable to All Drivers (PDF) nyc.gov
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